In article <1992Aug5.215232.12697@src.umd.edu> chad@src.umd.edu (R Michael McMahon) writes:
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>While it would be nice to have a stable, solid release availible for
>many non-programmer types, I believe lots of us demented sickos 
>actually *enjoy* making kernel patches, adding new features, and 
>trying not to break things in the process. The engineer in me says..
>"if it ain't broke, fix it anyway, or at least improve it!" I hope 
>Linus shares this view, rather than looking towards potential market
>value (at least for now: you *are* staying for PhD, right Linus?!)

I see only one problem there; if all the hackish kind of programmers
that actually port the largest and most difficult programs use
new "hackers'" kernels, won't the ports easily become incompatible 
with the old kernels and everyone has to update his/her kernel anyway?

This depends, of course, on how big the kernel changes are... 

Personally, I just would like to be able to use Linux in peace
without upgrading all the time, and also knowing that nobody
else is running a better kernel than I am :-)

(I hope nobody understands my comments wrongly, I don't mean to
demand anything only for my personal welfare, just trying to 
be intellectually productive...)

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>R Michael McMahon      chad@src.umd.edu

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